Example sentences of "[art] place [prep] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point it might well happen that blocks of shops and houses would be built down one side of the market place , taking the place of a number of stalls , and so creating the plan , described above , where the original open space is reduced to a broad main street , with a detached block of buildings down one side , behind which is a narrow back street , as at St Albans , or Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire , to speak of only two examples . |
| 2 | Yet my sense that that was the place for a transformation of vision . |
| 3 | Now that is a job worth having — traditionally the stepping stone to the Cabinet and the place for a man of ideas . |
| 4 | This is hardly the place for a dissertation of magnetic monopoles ; indeed , with luck , you can hope to avoid a single mention of the grand Universal Theories ( called GUTs ) that predict them . |
| 5 | ‘ It would reduce the place to a scattering of houses . |
| 6 | Change of weather 's turned the place into a hive of activity has n't it ? |
| 7 | At Burwalls , he and the Warden , Jock Sloane , ran the place like a couple of jolly uncles . |
| 8 | On returning at night , with his dog , who was usually at his heels , he again stopped at Aylesford , and as is too frequently the case upon such occasions , he drank immoderately , and left the place in a state of intoxication . |
| 9 | Such a request was made to Thomas Dundas by four of the councillors of Dunfermline who pressed him to use his interest with Lord Sandwich to get Midshipman Ebenezer Fish serving on board the Warwick a place as a lieutenant of marines , since the marine officers were not required to have the years of sea-service demanded of naval lieutenants . |
| 10 | His closeness to the king and his enthusiasm for the war would have ensured him a place as a leader of the younger generation of nobles , and his death was yet another misfortune for the king . |
| 11 | An excellent example of the role of a place as a focus of collective identity is provided by one of the major events in British industrial relations in recent decades — the National Union of Mineworkers ' strike of March 1984 to March 1985 . |
| 12 | They see a place for a Bill of Rights , a written constitution and constitutional court ; they want to increase the checks on government through a more balanced constitution consequent upon the establishment of a reformed , elected , second chamber with increased powers of delay ; and they look to a revival of the position of Parliament and parliamentary government . |
| 13 | Any decision on acceptance of an entry profile and offer of a place on a programme of studies is specific to an individual centre and that offer is not necessarily transferable between centres . |
| 14 | Any decision on acceptance of an entry profile and offer of a place on a programme of studies is specific to an individual centre and that offer is not necessarily transferable between centres . |
| 15 | But though New Cross is n't so good they had to name it twice , it 's still a place worth a song of its own , having once lent its name to New Cross Records , a Charly offshoot that provided a home for some Dillinger and Bob Marley releases . |
| 16 | For a place with a population of half a million or so it is a handy size . |
| 17 | It should be possible to see now that the tone-unit has a place in a range of phonological units that are in a hierarchical relationship : speech consists of a number of utterances ( the largest unit that we shall consider ) ; each utterance consists of one or more tone-units ; each tone-unit consists of one or more feet ; each foot consists of one or more syllables ; each syllable consists of one or more phonemes . |
| 18 | Of course India is no place for a man of his character . ’ |
| 19 | It follows that this account finds no place for a notion of acquired equivalence . |
| 20 | All these inventions and processes involve technical processes whose details have no place in a book of this compass . |